gabby
@lachanoptera.bsky.social
queer, trans, history student
she/elle
learning on the fly how social media works
she/elle
learning on the fly how social media works
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The wild thing about the master and commander movie is, like...it's somehow one of the best Star Trek movies because it's actually about exploring and the game of empires at the frontiers - the entire bit about exploring the Galapagos island is what Star Trek SHOULD be!
Current Star Trek is so disheartening as a version of it that's essentially Hornblower/Aubrey-Maturin in space would be a refreshing return to roots, a proper nautical sci-fi - but none of the people who write the show are especially interested in nautical fiction, they only watch Star Trek
August 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The wild thing about the master and commander movie is, like...it's somehow one of the best Star Trek movies because it's actually about exploring and the game of empires at the frontiers - the entire bit about exploring the Galapagos island is what Star Trek SHOULD be!
i agree, especially re the publishing and in that there is rampant intentional, self-aware gatekeeping involved in the issue
7) Most professors assume that the only people worth "marketing" to are other professors.
They run the academic circuit.
There is absolutely no consideration paid to readers outside of the academy. No effort or outreach is made to relevant communities.
We have a word for this. It's gatekeeping.
They run the academic circuit.
There is absolutely no consideration paid to readers outside of the academy. No effort or outreach is made to relevant communities.
We have a word for this. It's gatekeeping.
July 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
i agree, especially re the publishing and in that there is rampant intentional, self-aware gatekeeping involved in the issue
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There's been interesting conversation about my earlier posts on the economics of academic publishing.
Here's why I'm not fully sold on arguments that academic texts "need" to cost minimum $30-$40 dollars to break even 🧵
Here's why I'm not fully sold on arguments that academic texts "need" to cost minimum $30-$40 dollars to break even 🧵
July 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's been interesting conversation about my earlier posts on the economics of academic publishing.
Here's why I'm not fully sold on arguments that academic texts "need" to cost minimum $30-$40 dollars to break even 🧵
Here's why I'm not fully sold on arguments that academic texts "need" to cost minimum $30-$40 dollars to break even 🧵
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as we enter into a new era of internet censorship, it is your solemn duty to break the egg prime directive. do it constantly. tell everyone. tell them again. tell them about estrogen and about T.
I made it to my mid-teens before I even knew what transition was. let’s not go back to that.
I made it to my mid-teens before I even knew what transition was. let’s not go back to that.
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
as we enter into a new era of internet censorship, it is your solemn duty to break the egg prime directive. do it constantly. tell everyone. tell them again. tell them about estrogen and about T.
I made it to my mid-teens before I even knew what transition was. let’s not go back to that.
I made it to my mid-teens before I even knew what transition was. let’s not go back to that.
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What people call "visibility" is actually closer to "hyperscrutiny". We are SURVEILLED, we are mocked and jeered and caricatured, held up as freaks to point and jeer at in exhibits, always spoken ABOUT but rarely spoken TO, rarely given the chance to speak for ourselves.
'Visibility' is a lie.
'Visibility' is a lie.
Yes and I challenge the notion trans people have "increased" visibility compared to the 2000s or before. We've been a focus of fascination and mockery across the entire history of mass media and lots of people are plainly nostalgic for the pleasure they got from our public humiliation
The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible
June 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What people call "visibility" is actually closer to "hyperscrutiny". We are SURVEILLED, we are mocked and jeered and caricatured, held up as freaks to point and jeer at in exhibits, always spoken ABOUT but rarely spoken TO, rarely given the chance to speak for ourselves.
'Visibility' is a lie.
'Visibility' is a lie.
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Gatekeeping transition care is:
-Bad because its stated intent is malicious
-Bad because its outcome is harmful
-Bad because it's completely ineffective for any of its purported benefits
-Bad because it creates the need for trans people to lie to healthcare professionals
-Bad because its stated intent is malicious
-Bad because its outcome is harmful
-Bad because it's completely ineffective for any of its purported benefits
-Bad because it creates the need for trans people to lie to healthcare professionals
Fact of the matter is "hey, I have uncertain feelings about my gender identity I want to discuss with a therapist who can help me make sense of them" and "I would like to change my sex characteristics" are two separate healthcare issues that can and should be provided independent of each other
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gatekeeping transition care is:
-Bad because its stated intent is malicious
-Bad because its outcome is harmful
-Bad because it's completely ineffective for any of its purported benefits
-Bad because it creates the need for trans people to lie to healthcare professionals
-Bad because its stated intent is malicious
-Bad because its outcome is harmful
-Bad because it's completely ineffective for any of its purported benefits
-Bad because it creates the need for trans people to lie to healthcare professionals
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i'm starting to think heterosexuality and patriarchal masculinity are prisons. has anyone noticed this before? i'm thinking it might be coercive and extremely unwell how boys are raised, especially when they're not actually boys. just an idle thought that i am having for the first time.
May 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
i'm starting to think heterosexuality and patriarchal masculinity are prisons. has anyone noticed this before? i'm thinking it might be coercive and extremely unwell how boys are raised, especially when they're not actually boys. just an idle thought that i am having for the first time.
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Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
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Part of "if you're transgender, you have to live" is realizing that you have to do things to survive sometimes. You have to be ready to grasp at resources, opportunities, anything that buys you another day. I ran because that was how I live on. The answer may be different for you. Live.
January 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Part of "if you're transgender, you have to live" is realizing that you have to do things to survive sometimes. You have to be ready to grasp at resources, opportunities, anything that buys you another day. I ran because that was how I live on. The answer may be different for you. Live.
there is a balance to be struck; it is one thing to exist in trans circles, to seek out the company of those who share one's experiences, but another, poisonous, to do so at the exclusion of all else, to reject others with whom one has commonalities and to isolate oneself and one's ideas
When you begin to enforce your own isolation and become wholly dependent on a specific subculture, you have not so much solved your issue as you have traded one context for another.
It's exacerbated by the sheer neuroses at play, because girls who keep themselves trapped in T4T circles, well ...
It's exacerbated by the sheer neuroses at play, because girls who keep themselves trapped in T4T circles, well ...
January 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is a balance to be struck; it is one thing to exist in trans circles, to seek out the company of those who share one's experiences, but another, poisonous, to do so at the exclusion of all else, to reject others with whom one has commonalities and to isolate oneself and one's ideas
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Zero tolerance policy towards people who act unhinged about @benjanun.bsky.social and @enkiducoin.bsky.social, as far as I'm concerned.
It's such an incredibly reliable predictor of being a piece of shit across a broad range of situations
It's such an incredibly reliable predictor of being a piece of shit across a broad range of situations
January 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Zero tolerance policy towards people who act unhinged about @benjanun.bsky.social and @enkiducoin.bsky.social, as far as I'm concerned.
It's such an incredibly reliable predictor of being a piece of shit across a broad range of situations
It's such an incredibly reliable predictor of being a piece of shit across a broad range of situations
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Anyone who says trans women must disclose our trans status in any situation is either dangerously ignorant or actively malicious.
January 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Anyone who says trans women must disclose our trans status in any situation is either dangerously ignorant or actively malicious.
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This is a fantastic thread and I’d like to note something about it, going back to my earlier thread—
Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY.
Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵
Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY.
Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵
I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.
January 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is a fantastic thread and I’d like to note something about it, going back to my earlier thread—
Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY.
Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵
Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY.
Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵
my mind seems to allow for a strange combination of crippling anxiety, which will obsess over often-innocuous things, and the ability to become accustomed to inconveniences, to the point of putting off addressing issues that should probably worry me
January 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
my mind seems to allow for a strange combination of crippling anxiety, which will obsess over often-innocuous things, and the ability to become accustomed to inconveniences, to the point of putting off addressing issues that should probably worry me
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Many have been struggling with hopelessness these last few years—and even more since the election. Too often I’ve asked myself how we should live in a world that can never be repaired. If that’s also you, I hope that you will find this essay on palliative activism helpful.
Palliative activism, or Fighting for justice without hope
The spirit within me wearies. I see each day pass another by, forever in want of change. I see the skies fall by a few inches each day. The…
medium.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Many have been struggling with hopelessness these last few years—and even more since the election. Too often I’ve asked myself how we should live in a world that can never be repaired. If that’s also you, I hope that you will find this essay on palliative activism helpful.
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Looking ahead a few years, the Conservative Party is in big, big trouble.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/looking-ah...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/looking-ah...
Looking Ahead to 2026-2027: The Conservative Party is Cooked
A short, definitive, in-no-way-guaranteed account of the future right wing collapse.
www.davidmoscrop.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Looking ahead a few years, the Conservative Party is in big, big trouble.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/looking-ah...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/looking-ah...
i wish (as i have said before and shall again) that this language had distinct terms for events that happened in the past and accounts/reconstructions/interpretations/scholarship ABOUT those events, derived from memory and other records, rather than calling both 'history' despite their differences
January 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
i wish (as i have said before and shall again) that this language had distinct terms for events that happened in the past and accounts/reconstructions/interpretations/scholarship ABOUT those events, derived from memory and other records, rather than calling both 'history' despite their differences
there is a pop song from a few years ago that still gets routinely played on the radio here, that uses a term for the Roma people that is to my knowledge improper, and it gives me a slight start every time that i hear it (like i did while out this afternoon)
January 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
there is a pop song from a few years ago that still gets routinely played on the radio here, that uses a term for the Roma people that is to my knowledge improper, and it gives me a slight start every time that i hear it (like i did while out this afternoon)
precisely my current, mid-graduate-degree crisis
January 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
precisely my current, mid-graduate-degree crisis
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I’m always ambivalent about this, because on the one hand, I just wanna be left the fuck alone to live my stupid little tranny life, but on the other hand, fuck God fuck Western Civilization, and being an apocalyptic demi-goddess rewriting creation through the force of my will is extremely based
being transgender is basically being constantly told you are the enemy of God while you're just tryna eat a burger or take a piss somewhere
January 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m always ambivalent about this, because on the one hand, I just wanna be left the fuck alone to live my stupid little tranny life, but on the other hand, fuck God fuck Western Civilization, and being an apocalyptic demi-goddess rewriting creation through the force of my will is extremely based
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People fundamentally just do not understand how conservatives view the world, which is why so much liberal discourse involves "dunking" on them for "hypocrisy" that is perfectly in keeping with their views.
Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.
Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.
I worry that we have a generation of liberal/left types who do not understand right wing morality at all and attribute it to cruelty rather than a slavish belief in the moral righteousness of an unbalanced, rigid social hierarchy that provides "order" to society with all else being disastrous chaos.
January 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
People fundamentally just do not understand how conservatives view the world, which is why so much liberal discourse involves "dunking" on them for "hypocrisy" that is perfectly in keeping with their views.
Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.
Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.
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encourage LESBIANISM
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Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa
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Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
encourage LESBIANISM
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Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa
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Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa
what are the odds that there is someone in the world with the name Ella Salmon? (and are they a poultry farmer)
January 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
what are the odds that there is someone in the world with the name Ella Salmon? (and are they a poultry farmer)
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